Seven Local Playwrights Chosen For CTG’s Writers’ Workshop

Center Theatre Group has announced the participants chosen for the company’s annual nine-month Writers’ Workshop. The selected playwrights are Padraic Duffy, Larissa FastHorse, Sigrid Gilmer, Prince Gomolvilas, Jennifer Haley, Matt Sax and Steven Yockey.

Administered by CTG’s Literary Department, the workshop is an opportunity for the playwrights to share their work and assist each other in the creative process of developing their respective plays.

The workshop will open with a weekend-long assembly in October. The playwrights will identify local experts on the subject of their plays and invite them to join the group for discussion. Playwrights are encouraged to invite two experts from different fields to represent varying perspectives on the same topic. Guests for the upcoming gathering include the mayor of West Hollywood and a professional ghost hunter.

Several of the plays developed in the Writers’ Workshop have been produced around the country, including Lisa Loomer’s Distracted, which premiered at CTG/Mark Taper Forum, Julie Myatt’s My Wandering Boy and Adriana Sevahn Nichols’ Night Over Erzinga. Julie Hébert’s Night Falls will be seen in San Francisco this fall and Lila Rose Kaplan’s Entangled will premiere at UC Santa Barbara’s Launch Pad in 2012.

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